scrupulousness

Other forms of scrupulousness

plural

scrupulousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scrupulousness

What does scrupulousness mean?

scrupulousness means "conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scrupulousness?

scrupulousness has 4 syllables: scru-pu-lou-sness. The stress falls on "pu".

What is another word for scrupulousness?

Close synonyms include meticulousness, meticulosity, punctiliousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of scrupulousness?

The recorded antonyms are unscrupulousness.

Is scrupulousness a common word?

scrupulousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.